Fletcher Area Business Association Committees
Executive
The Executive committee is comprised of the elected officers: Chairman, Vice-chairman, Treasurer, Secretary and each standing committee Chair person. The Chairman of the Board Chairs the Executive Committee. The responsibilities of the Executive committee are to serve as the FABA supervisory and policy guiding body and makes recommendations to the full Board of Directors for approval prior to implementation.
Communications and Marketing
The Communications and Marketing Committee is a standing committee whose responsibilities include producing and distributing FABA related publicity, advertising, press releases, etc. for general public consumption. Additionally their responsibilities include: marketing of Website ads to the FABA members, promote the sponsoring of FABA events and preparing/acquiring write-ups for the HOT TOPICS, What's happening page.
Events
The Events Committee is a standing committee responsible for scheduling and organizing of all FABA hosted events. These events include; the monthly Fletcher After Five Events, the Annual Business Expo and ay other FABA special events as approved by the Board of Directors. The duties of Events Committee are performed at the direction of the Executive Committee.
Financial
The Financial Committee is a standing committee consisting of the Treasurer aided by the administrative Assistant. The responsibility of the Financial Committee includes the following specific tasks: collect FABA mail from the FABA PO box on a regular schedule, receive and deposit dues and any other payments made out to FABA into the FABA bank account, pay all invoices as directed and authorized the Board of Directors, maintain all required financial records for tax purposes and mail out Annual Membership Invoices to each FABA member in the month of December. Mail correspondence not related to financial matters is forwarded by the Administrative Assistant to the Chairman of the Board or approrpiate FABA Committee Chair for follow up. The Chairman of the Board is an authorized signator for making bank deposits and writing checks in the absence of the Treasure.
Membership
The Membership Committee is a standing committee responsible for interfacing with potential new business members to provide personal membership information through the FABA "Get a Live Call Back" program. Additional responsibilities are to interface directly with FABA Business Members to make sure the profile contact information is maintained current and up to date whenever the need arises, as in the case of 'bounced' e-mails or returned USPS mail.
Website
The Website Committee is a standing committee responsible for the maintenance of, and appropriateness of, the content presented on the FABA Website. Due to specific built-in mechanisms, the members of the Website committee include as a minimum: The Website Administrator having the responsibility for the physical maintenance of the Website pages, a Website Co-administrator who will be a trained to be able to take over site maintenance in the absence of the Website Administrator and the Treasurer having the responsibility to verify receipt of all dues and other payments to FABA while directly maintaining the PAID/UN-PAID status of each member. The Administrative Assistant shall support this committee with data entry and shall act as the "Contact FABA" recipient. Other Committee Chairs shall also provide support for data preparation/input and operations of the FABA Blog.
Nominating
The Nominating Committee is a temporary committee appointed by the Chairman of the Board and is responsible for developing a slate of nominations for the election of the Officers and/or for new Board members when vacancies occur. The Chairman of the Board and new board member candidates are elected by a vote of the sitting Board members.
Audit
The Audit Committee is a temporary committee apointed by the Chairman of the Board and is responsible for an annual internal auditing the FABA financial records and the preparation of a formal report to be presented to the entire Board of Directors. The Audit committee may consist of non board members and or an independant contracted auditor.